Lectures_notes

9/13 Friday

• Announcement: grader (Qi) office hour changed to Wed mornings (see course website)
• A brief video on history leading to quantum physics ---eg. radiation & planck "quanta" (another short video "Max Planck and Quantum Physics")
• Read Chap 3.1, 3.3
• Classical picture of thermal radiation ... Rayleigh Jeans "law" leads to "UV catastrophe"

9/16 Monday

• Derived classical (Rayleigh Jeans) and quantum (Planck) descriptions for thermal/blackbody radiation
• Photons (quanta of light)

9/18 Wednesday

• Photoelectric effect (Sec. 3.2)

11/1 Wednesday
two interesting video clips on Rutherford Scattering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4BL_aEQMNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvL5mwZpSI&list=TLaBXpz9DBzA5IciZ5WOvmpXSqRNwL-hsb

11/06 Hydrogen Bohr Model
Play games with firing photons to Hydrogen